Does anyone know of a source for poling pockets for some scratch building projects? Armand Premo

That's as good as the stories I've heard of Bob Hundman's models that were painted/lettered on one side only as that was all needed to photograph them. We used to joke about "one sided" models for my

Al, thanks for taking the time to share your answer to my curiosity. I hope others found it enlightening as well. Someone mentioned that about 1 in 10 modelers are not content with the status quo -

Clark Propst asked: "I have a Tichy undec single sheathed box car. Would it work for a Pennsy X26? If I change the doors?" Yes, with the caveat that most Class X26 boxcars received minor rebuilds in

C&BT was founded in 1986. Dick Schweiger was an avid East Broad Top modeler and found the available hopper cars wanting. Not being able to purchase cars for the EBT in quantity or quality which

I’ve heard it said that you could tell which roads Bill Glass was producing by checking the color of the bushes at his house. He supposedly had a fake air conditioner that was actually the exhaust

I haven't seen any mention of Quality Craft, which offered kits for a good number of contemporary freight cars (in the 1960's-1970's) but suffered from choice of raw material (wood). But these kits

Tom I definitely remember them. My Dad built one lettered Buffalo Creek and I remember the silk-screen lettering was awesomely crisp and opaque compared to the awful pad-printed stuff Athearn was

Charlie Have you contacted James Kinkaid <JAKinkaid@...>? He has posted over a thousand P-S builder photos to the MFCL photo archive, from the 1940's onwards. Tim O'Connor

Greg Martin wrote Robin Rails was Bill Glass, also of Bev-Bel. He contracted with Fred Becker (of Front Range fame) to produce the tooling. Bill was active for a while on the old Usenet newsgroup

Rod, that is a deep background on some of the story! I like how Fred Becker (Front Range) is never mentioned by name... :-) (Is the Voldermort effect?) Tim O'Connor

lol, much earlier than that. The Egyptians were consumate model builders.

Mark, the Branchline car would be a good start. Cars with Despatch ends were post war, the Athearn car is lacking, but YMMV Brian J. Carlson, P.E. Cheektowaga, NY From: STMFC@...

Sorry 'bout that folks.Armand Premo

Purchased a boxcar on eBay and the car is athearn 40' with all the ladders and grabs removed with replacement ends. The ends appear to be Branchline Despatch! Would this be a good start for a NYC

Armand Premo wrote: I think Armand makes a good point. I can recall those magazine articles about how to file off the Belpaire firebox on the cast-metal English PRR engines. Tony Thompson

Can't help but think that the arrival of prototype specific motive power encourged one to abandon ficticious free lance model railroads.Very few prototypical engines were available.Importers like PFM

According to the Model Railroad Warehouse website, the Kurtz-Kraft PS-1 boxcar was re-issued by Model Railroad Warehouse from the 1970's until recently (the dies were donated to the NMRA). Merle Rice

Thanks for the clarification Al. And thanks for keeping tuned in to the STMFC group! Dave

I think the problem is, Bill, this group has lost focus of what you are looking for. Most of the replies are applauding the kits with finer detail, not necessarily that that went out of their way to